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- Title
Disproportionality in Transition Services: A Descriptive Study.
- Authors
Baer, Robert M.; Daviso, III, Alfred; Queen, Rachel McMahan; Flexer, Robert W.
- Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine disproportionality in transition services for students with disabilities. The authors predicted that students' transition services and secondaiy programs would be driven not only Ivy their postschool goals, but also by their gender, ethnicity, disability, and school setting. To test this hypothesis, the researchers examined school records and interviews of more than 4,500 students in a north- eastern state who graduated or aged out of special education in the years 2005-2008. The authors found that secondary programs and transition services varied significantly for students from differing school settings and differing gender, ethnicity, and disability groups and that this often resulted in poor alignment between students' goals and their secondary curricula and transition services. The authors propose that these findings indicated the need for earlier transition planning and better connections between middle and high schools.
- Subjects
STUDENTS with disabilities; TRANSITIONAL care; GROUP identity; SECONDARY education research; PUBLIC schools
- Publication
Education & Training in Autism & Developmental Disabilities, 2011, Vol 46, Issue 2, p172
- ISSN
2154-1647
- Publication type
Article